Comments on: It’s a Yo Yo, Ma

By: www.nolanotes.com

www.nolanotes.com — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:54:01 +0000

Mamma Loves and Southern Mom, are you recommending that I nurse exclusively? This is what I was doing that brought this condition on initially. Help!

Thanks,
Nola

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:13:56 +0000

Sorry, and I agree with Mamma Loves. You have to nurse or pump to get some relief. I second her advice to just stay in bed and nurse on demand, even if it is for a few seconds, minutes or hours. It will help with your supply, your nip tolerance and infection. What else do you have to do? Plus you get to spend all day looking at the baby.

By: MammaLoves

MammaLoves — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:07:45 +0000

Ugh! I’m sorry you’re in that sick circle.

You might not like to hear this, but the only way to get through the pain is to nurse through it. If you keep backing off every time you get sore, your nipples will never build up their tolerance. You should seriously stay in bed for a day or two with the baby and just let her nurse as often as she wants. Typically, the pain will be intense in the first thirty seconds of nursing but it will go away once she’s latched on.

If you rely too much on the pump at this point, my experience is that you won’t continue to nurse.

It will be a hard week or two, but once it’s over, you’ll be absolutely fine.

I’m sorry to add my unwanted two cents. I was so angry that people acted like nursing was soo easy and wouldn’t hurt if you did it right. BS!!

Take care. And feel free to email me if you need to vent.

I wasn’t even sure I was going to nurse my two guys, but I ended up doing it for both of them until they could have regular milk.